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December 5, 2011
Christine Crimmins
Baby Boomers!
1950's known for:
  • rise in technology and medicine
  • comfort and security
  • suburbs (Levittowns)
  • cool cars
  • conveniences (McDonald's)
  • television
  • shopping malls
  • commercialisms
Youthful Rebellion
Rock N' Roll music:
  • mixture of country and jazz
  • appealed to both black and white teens
  • sexual in nature
Beatnik Generation:
  • rejected the commercialism of time
  • promoted sex and drugs
  • authored books about unconventional experiences
  • example: Jack Keruac
The Boiling Pot of Civil Rights
  1. liberal politicians/leaders
  2. rise of civil right leaders: MLK, Rosa Parks
  3. Brown vs. Board of Education
  4. Rock N' Roll
  5. Youth
  6. ???? Mr. Kyle forgets ?????


December 6, 2011
Logan TeBeau

First we discussed the homework worksheet (front side only) and went over the answers on the board

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
  • separate but equal ruling

Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
  • in Topika, Kansas
  • 9-0 ruling in the case for it not being separate but equal
  • ends the separate but equal law created by the Plessy vs. Ferguson case

  • Next we watched a Youtube about the Little Rock Nine.
  • Then we learned about the Race Roits of 1969 in York City
  • Finally we read articles with a partner to create a venn diagram comparing Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

P.S. Andro and I switched notes days due to my absence on Nov. 30th. He posted them late because we switched and I took his day.

December 7, 2011
Austin Beck
Four site testing
December 9, 2011
Bekah Quickel

Paper Writting-
  • Always write in past tense
  • No contractions - can't, won't
  • NO first person words
  • No cheesy openings

1960's

John F. Kennedy- (1960-1963)
  • Elected by a narrow margin in 1960
    • Elected because he looked good
    • Promised to represent American youth
    • First Catholic president
    • Democratic

Bay of Pigs Invasion-
  • Cuba falls to Communism in 1959
  • New leader is Fidel Castro
  • CIA makes plans to overthrow Castro
  • Provided Cuban rebels weapons to overthrow Castro in 1961
  • Results: Failure, Castro's military crushed rebels and Kennedy looks like a fool

Cuban Missile Crisis-
  • Soviets put nuculear missile in Cuba-
    • America gets nervous- cuba is 90 miles away
    • Stand off between U.S. (Kennedy) and Soviets (Khrushchev)
  • Options-
    • Generals- Bomb Cuba
    • Liberals- Make a deal, we take nukes out of Asia if they take nukes out of Cuba
    • Plan of compromise
  • The Decision-
    • Navel blockade around Cuba
    • Soviets sent attack ships
    • Kennedy said he would attack if Soviets attacked us first
    • World stops for fear of nuculear war and the beginning of WWIII
  • Ending-
    • Soviets turn around
    • Nukes taken out of Asia and Cuba
    • Kennedy is a hero!
    • Closest the world has ever gotten to a nuculear war